In my brief time spent overseas observing and discovering new places with new cultures, customs, and ways of life became part of the experience. However, it struck me that as significant as the origins and lineage of modern science are, so, too,...

Santiniketan is a small town in West Bengal, India. It was here that Rabrindenath Tagore - polymath and native of Kolkata - began Visva-Bharati, a liberal arts university. Though innovative in many areas, Visva-Bharati emphasized the relationship...

York Minster, one of the U.K.'s more significant Anglican cathedrals, is mirrored in the windows of an inn across the street - the inn where 17th-century religious extremist Guy Fawkes was supposedly born. Fawkes participated in a failed plot to...

Exploring places outside of LA became a hobby of mine; I wanted to see everything that the Los Angeles area had to offer. After driving up the PCH for a while, I came across El Matador beach. It was a beautiful place to relax and just get away...

Black and blue scarves flaunted proudly, pouring rain in an open air stadium, and absolutely no correlation between the seat number on your ticket and the chair you stand on: this is professional Italian soccer. After talking to the locals about...

Drikung Monastery is well known by Tibetans from all across Tibet. This holy location is where many take those who have passed on to receive a proper and respectful death rite. The ceremony begins the night before, with the monks encircling the...

My Egyptian Arabic instructor Mediha often spoke of the dust storms that occasionally strike Cairo with little warning in the winter and spring months. Her descriptions of these natural phenomena (dictated in a thick Middle-Eastern accent) always...

As our group was walking up the sand dunes in United Arab Emirates, I was so impressed with how perfect the ripples in the sand looked going on forever, but we stepped across it like we stepped into the culture. I stepped into a 100% Muslim...

Europe Term Intercultural Communication in Austria, Czech Republic, and France

This photo was taken when I was in Florence, Italy. This city is an active center of art and culture, attracting thousands of people from all over the world each year. Art can be found around every corner of this city, from Michelangelo’s David to...

My friends and I would frequent the Circular Quay, the major downtown docking harbor, to catch ferries across the water. The strip along the harbor was never still, always full of locals, tourists, and street performers. This gold man was one of...

This picture was taken in the Central Park of Guatemala City, Guatemala, in March of 2001. Central Park is located right in the heart of the city, near all of the important government buildings. It is the center of activities and life. Many...

On a rare sunny day in Scotland, my sister and I started out on a hike. We came across a ruined church draped in dense, green ivy before we even left my campus to walk into the hills. The gate leading into the courtyard and cemetery was open so we...